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[Part 1 up] Missing
Topic Started: Jan 26 2008, 02:28 PM (336 Views)
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A/N: Imagine, if you will, that the Fry that would eventually become Lars was the "real" Fry and the only one. Also imagine that he did not become Lars, and that Lars did not show up in the movie, but Fry still went back to the past. Yes, this is an "AU" story. Enjoy.

-Missing-
Clink! Another empty beer bottle landed on the floor, joining the others in a pile by the couch. The pile had been growing steadily for months, never bothered to be tended to, to be thrown away or recycled.

Clink! Only a few seconds had passed before another bottle crashed on top of the others.

Bender groaned. He was out of beer, again. He decided to get off of his shiny metal ass and buy some more. Beer was, literally, all he lived for, anyway. His job, bending girders for suicide booths, was bland and repetitive. He remembered why he almost committed suicide once, because the use of the girders was ehorrible.f Yeah, right. Bender loved carnage, and if people want to do the killing themselves, good for them. He really just didn't like the work itself. He had no friends, nothing but work and alcohol. And here he was, in that situation once again. He thought that maybe it'll all change, like the day he met Fry--

-Fry.

Bender stopped walking to the door and sat down again. He didn't need that reminder. Fry had disappeared years ago, back when Nudar and his goons took over Planet Express. Everybody thought he had gone back to his own time. That explanation made sense, so Bender believed it. Planet Express wasn't the same from then on. The new delivery boy, a kid that just dropped out of Hyperion State University named Rodney, was always angry and depressed, like a teenaged outcast. Bender couldn't even talk to him without Rodney launching into a tirade about how little Bender took his job seriously. Eventually, the robot got tired of it and quit, without realizing first that his only other option was to go back to his old job. So, here he was, several years later, without the motivation to even buy beer. He lay down on the couch and turned on the television.

"I'll be fine for the day", he grumbled, flipping through the channels. Suddenly, the phone rang. He lazily got up and walked over to the phone, picking it up. "Yof, Bender here. What the hell do you want?"

A familiar voice answered. "Bender?"

The robot back snapped to reality, the voice startling him. "What the--Leela?" he gasped. "It's been over a year since we last saw each other!"

"Actually, it's been about three years," Leela said.

"Oh, right. I saw you at Piggly Wiggly last March, that's what I meant."

There was a pause on the other line. "Oh...kay... Bender, have you heard?"

Bender rolled his eyes. "Yes, I've heard. I've heard you talking. What should I have heard about?"

"Oh, sorry," Leela said, despondently. "You don't work at Planet Express anymore, I remember now. Well, they found an occupied cryogenic tube buried next to the Planet Express building!"

"Uh... Why'd you have to call and tell me?"

"I just thought...I know it sounds crazy and impossible, but I really hope its Fry."

Something in Bender's hard drive booted up and made him feel hopeful and excited. "Maybe he did go back to 2000! And froze himself again because he's a meatbag that nobody would ever love!"

"That wasn't exactly what I was thinking, but yes," Leela agreed. "I'm getting excited over nothing, probably, but..."

Bender stopped her. "I'll be right there."

"Really? That's--"

The robot hung up the phone and ran out of his closet as fast as his footcups could run.

---

Planet Express looked the same as it always did. Bender looked up at the building and smiled. He'd never missed going to work so much.

"Bender!" Leela called from behind him. "I'm glad you came. There are police officers here investigating the tube. They won't let me see it, or tell me anything about it, so we have to wait."

A few moments of silence passed between the two. Bender chuckled. "How stupid are we? We actually think that thing is Fry!"

Leela forced a smile a faked a laugh. "Yeah, well...I guess I really miss him is all."

Bender's cheery mood was broken as his robotic face fell. "I miss him, too," he admitted. "He was my first real friend."

"Friends were few and far between for me, too," Leela said, nodding. "You and Fry were the first best friends I've had since high school."

"You actually had friends when you were a kid?" The bending unit's expression changed from sadness to playful confusion. "So, why were you always yapping about how messed up your childhood was?"

"A few friends didn't make things any better!" Leela fumed. "My life was still miserable. The only other people that talked to me were jerks that thought I was worthless and pathetic, and they weren't afraid to tell me so."

Her comment caused another awkward silence. Bender actually felt a bit guilty for making her angry, which confused him. He'd never reacted to these situations like that.

A uniformed man walked up Leela and Bender. "Hello, I am Officer Regan, officer of the NNY Police Department." he said, professionally. "We have investigated the cryogenic tube you're interested in, ma'am. We've found an identity that matches his DNA."

"How'd you do that?" Bender asked.

"Why, we unfroze him, of course," replied Officer Regan. "We matched up his fingerprints with those of a person last seen in the year 2008."

"What was his name?" Leela asked, filled with hope and anticipation.

"Lars Fillmore."

Bender and Leela were taken aback by the uttering of the unfamiliar name. They were shocked and absolutely crushed. It took Leela few seconds before she could reply. "Th-thank you, sir." she stammered, weakly. "That's all we need to know."

The officer nodded and walked away to join the rest of the team. Bender couldn't say anything. Tears slowly fell from Leela's eye. It took a while, but they managed to say something to each other.

"We are stupid," Leela said quietly.

"Yeah," Bender replied. "Even me."

The shook hands and said their farewells as they began to walk back to their homes. As Bender walked, he turned to the scene of the investigation. He saw an officer encouraging a man to get into a police car. "Itfs okay, Mr. Fillmore, you're safe. Get in." The man nodded and sat down in the car, which then drove away.

Bender's eyes bulged. He thought he was going crazy, or that he was running too low on fuel. Even if those were true, he still knew what he saw.

It was Philip J. Fry being driven away in that car.

"LEELA!" he called, running in the opposite direction.

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oooo nice stroy!

So Fry used to be in the future but then went back in time and then never duplicated himself so became Lars anyway and then realised he wanted to go back?
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Mmm sort of...

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ok then :P
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